simile

IPA: sˈɪmʌɫi

A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

Examples of "simile" in Sentences

Blunt axe cleaves the air like any other axe; the simile is literally meaningless.
As an accident-prone person, I must say that I have never seen blood "shimmer" no matter which way the simile is arranged.
The simile is not chance, however, for the event, as the poet now knows, was all about a sounding of information, of random seeking turned to succeeding:
That particular simile is interesting since it seems they had some kind of Hawaiian themed party during this episode that ended up on the cutting room floor.
Every time a metaphor or simile is used, the author has inserted himself into the novel and given a personal assessment aside from the direct relation of the action.
So in literature we have, springing from this principle of comparison, the forms fable, parable, and allegory; and in language the figures of speech which we know as simile and metaphor.